Dark Knight : Just another mitigation tank

[Omskahn]

Based on a lot of the replies to this thread, SE should never add another class to the game, unless it is very similar to existing classes, so as to not allow any class to be potentially outdo any other.

People are literally saying they like how very similar classes are. You're not gonna get anywhere OP

[Altena]

Based on a lot of the replies to this thread, SE should never add another class to the game, unless it is very similar to existing classes, so as to not allow any class to be potentially outdo any other.

People are literally saying they like how very similar classes are. You're not gonna get anywhere OP

I have recently discovered this.

[Lorielle]

Based on a lot of the replies to this thread, SE should never add another class to the game, unless it is very similar to existing classes, so as to not allow any class to be potentially outdo any other.

How sad, but that's the feeling I got. It's why Astrologian, Dark Knight and perhaps Machinist(Not sure how good the changes were) are now.

Anyway, the blood tanking can be done here. We have access to "Self-Healing" much more often than Warrior's IB, but the problem is the return is weak and such negligible given how hard we get hit as well how long it takes to get to it. Upping the Lifesteal Potency is a step in the right direction for Dark Knight in being a "Blood Tank". Yet Square is scared that this would probably make DRK Overpowered in some way or form. I always considered SE would have thought about Dread Spikes from XI...That would have been a interesting "Invincible" Mechanic.. Every time you get hit, you recover the same amount.

Oh well. Subpar PLD/WAR, leggo.

[Verius_Nox]

Based on a lot of the replies to this thread, SE should never add another class to the game, unless it is very similar to existing classes, so as to not allow any class to be potentially outdo any other.

People are literally saying they like how very similar classes are. You're not gonna get anywhere OP

They can make new styles fine, it's a matter of how they implement them and they have to be very careful.

When it comes to tanks, SE is trying very hard not to have an FFXI ninja problem again, where you only tanked as ninja or you didn't tank at all because it was so glaringly better than any other tank out there. It was an evasion style tank. lifesteal tanks are equally as difficult to balance correctly. Blood death knight tanking in WoW has either been really underpowered or really overpowered, no in between.

People want new styles of gameplay but they don't want years of broken mess for the sake of it.